It breaks my heart that my father never knew my children. He should have been around for another 25 years.
BEAR GRYLLSAnd if you give your heart to a goal, it will repay you. It’s the law of the universe.
More Bear Grylls Quotes
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If you risk nothing you gain nothing
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To me, adventure has always been to me the connections and bounds you create with people when you’re there. And you can have that anywhere.
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I love home cooking, and I’m not a great one for fast food.
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“But, we’re also going to learn to look after each other, who to work together and who to understand and manage that risk.” That’s what it’s about, you don’t empower kids if you don’t expose them to risk.
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I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk – not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters.
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Many people find it hard to understand what it is about a mountain that draws men and women to risk their lives on her freezing, icy faces – all for a chance at that single, solitary moment on the top.
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Life doesn’t reward the naturally clever or strong but those who can learn to fight and work hard and never quit.
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When you find yourself thinking about someone or something in the same old negative way, just stop yourself. Think. Check. Change. Refresh. Job done. Smile. Move on. Do this enough times and you will change. For the better; for the stronger.
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Our dreams are just wishes, if we never follow them through with action. And in life, you have got to be able to light your own fire.
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I’ve fallen down crevasses, been bitten by snakes, been knocked unconscious, had various limbs broken and once, a heavy camera came plunging down which very nearly decapitated me.
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All my life the only thing I’ve been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.
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Christianity is not about religion. It’s about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It’s about finding joy and finding home.
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I’m probably going to be the scruffiest Chief Scout you’ve ever had and my health and safety policy is non-existent.
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When I’m in ‘Man vs. Wild’ mode, it’s not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I’m on reserve power all the time and I’m digging deep – and that’s the magic of it as well, and that’s raw and it’s great.
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I miss him still today: his long, whiskery eyebrows, his huge hands and hugs, his warmth, his prayers, his stories, but above all his shining example of how to live and how to die.
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